* Posts by Fungus Bob

1347 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2014

Google touts managed Linux, gets cosy with Dell in Chromebook Enterprise push

Fungus Bob

The ability to back up all your apps, settings and data (encrypted, of course) so that you can restore *everything* on to a new chromebook should your's get lost, stolen or die appeals to some folks.

Biz forked out $115k to tout 'Time AI' crypto at Black Hat. Now it sues organizers because hackers heckled it

Fungus Bob

Re: Openly and fairly...

It's more fun if you baffle them with reason and logic and make them start twitching as they leave.

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Re: If only...

Right. The rest of the world finds Crown Sterling's statement to be utter bollockry, and that Crown Sterling are a bunch of thundering fucksticks.

Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant

Fungus Bob

Nope. Secret live volcano lair. With booth babes...

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

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Re: That's Chromebook right out of my buying list then

"It is not acceptable to me that a supplier artificially limits updating hardware to less than the hardware's expected lifespan."

Actually, Google isn't the supplier. Their policy still sucks though. Makes upgrading the BIOS so you can install Gallium more attractive.

RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

Fungus Bob

Of course flat earthers believe planes exist. They think the Earth is (sort of) a plane, all that oblate spheroid stuff is just religious hokum.

You monsters: Screen time murders your kid's imaginary friend – until they reach school age

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Coat

Re: Er ...

Simple test:

1. Do you live in someone else's thumb?

Yes: You are imaginary

No: You may be real

2. does your nose grow when you tell a lie?

Yes: You are Pinocchio

No: You are a real boy

3. Did someone else shit your pants during a night of heavy drinking?

Yes: You are an alcoholic

I said it was simple, not useful...

Oh chute. Doubts cast on ExoMars lander's 2020 red planet jaunt after another failed test

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Trollface

"Isn’t the air density and gravity different to Earth’s. So how do they account for that when designing and testing parachutes"

Mathematics

WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

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Re: One Network to Rule Them All

I can't think of a legitimate reason for giving the passengers information from the avionics systems.

Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective! Oh, and disturbingly easy

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Devil

Re: Facebook with brain hacking capability ? Run for the hills.

Giving an AI access to my neurons would render it quite mad...

Researchers find development and conservation aren't mutually exclusive

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Trollface

Re: Err, yes, and?

Well, I say it's just a big frown!

https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/QXfOsoNP6xGjrzVbuSuM25aanXA=/768x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/Kuznets_curve-copy-56a27de33df78cf77276a802.jpg

Trump continues on the warpath: Now US tariffs cover nearly everything arriving from China

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Headmaster

One niggling little point about the article

Ya misspelt 'Glorious Leader'

Both words should be capitalized....

As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

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Thumb Up

Upvote for the Bud Spencer reference.

Fantastic Mr Fox? Not when he sh*ts on your lawn, kids' trampoline and your soul

Fungus Bob

If all they're looking for is a toilet, a six foot high fence makes the idiot neighbor's lawn an easier target.

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First, deal with the neighbor. Report him/her/it to whatever local authority would deal with someone creating a habitat for vermin. May take several complaints to be effective.

Second, Chain link. With the bottom of the fence a couple inches below ground level and set in concrete. Expensive but the foxes will have to poop on your idiot neighbor's lawn.

It's so hot, UK needs to start naming heatwaves like we do when it's a bit windy – climate boffins

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Re: what's so difficult about Q, U, X, Y and Z?

No, that would be Obi Wan.

This is more like "Stew or stew not, there is no fry"

Fungus Bob

Re: Names

"An odd list of names. It seems to have been chosen with the laudable intention of including non-English names, but the choices are sometimes puzzling."

This way you can blame foreigners.

Fungus Bob

Re: what's so difficult about Q, U, X, Y and Z?

Yoda

LightSail 2 successfully unfurls its silvery solar sails, prepares to become a truly solar-powered satellite

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Re: On the contrary!

"One would generally consider learning to crawl before running to be a good thing."

Learning to crawl before drinking is an even better thing...

Low Barr: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General

Fungus Bob

Re: "being stupid enough to believe you can get away with it"

"And why beholdest thou the Trump that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the BoJo that is in thine own eye?"

Trump has better hair(?)

It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

Fungus Bob
Trollface

Re: Disaster

"How is it, in the 21st century, that someone gets to be PM simply because he himself thinks he's entitled to it?"

I hear that a long time ago a guy became king because some watery tart threw a sword at him...

We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers

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Re: So the already exorbitant price of pampers go up...

Yes, the new, improved Pampers absorb all the money in your bank account!

Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

Fungus Bob

Re: Eh?

So Microsoft copied KDE 4?

Elon Musk's new idea is to hook your noggin up to an AI – but is he just insane about the brain?

Fungus Bob

Re: But will my mind be sucked out and replaced by Google, Microsoft or AWS?

PlayStation

2019 set to be the worst year yet for smartphone market as lack of worthy upgrades dents demand

Fungus Bob

Re: "how to be a bottom feeder"

Feeding on bottoms is a shitty pastime...

Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

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Boffin

Re: Full fat or skimmed

"I still wonder how operating systems have managed to balloon to gigabytes in size."

Bug bites. There is immediate swelling in the affected area.

I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue

Fungus Bob
Holmes

Re: Nobody tells students nothing

If the teen pregnancy stats are anything to go by, the kids seem to pick that up.

Malicious code ousted from PureScript's npm installer – but who put it there in the first place?

Fungus Bob

Re: These developer divas egos are tiring to deal with

"I'm guessing that if a hacker was intent on wreaking havoc, he'd want it to break whatever installer was used."

Unless said hacker wants to sit back and enjoy the show...

Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note

Fungus Bob

"I forsee some sad souls refusing to accept these notes because of the sexuality of the person shown thereupon."

That only happens in the US. Although quite a lot more of us would refuse it for not being legal tender over here.

Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer

Fungus Bob
Trollface

Re: our elected representatives reflect society at large

That's odd. In most countries they represent the corporations that bought them...

Brexit: Digital border possible for Irish backstop woes, UK MPs told

Fungus Bob
Devil

Just build a wall already!

Worked for Hadrian...

Microsoft: 2TB or not 2... OK, OK! 2TB. OneDrive dragged kicking and screaming into selling more storage

Fungus Bob

Re: google is "unlimited"

We all know the only thing that has ever been truly unlimited was the top end of the one cop car in 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry'...

The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco

Fungus Bob

It'll evaporate.

And if you're wondering if I'm referring to the soup or the chlorine. Yes, I am...

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Trollface

Re: Call me a snob, but...

OK. you're a snob butt...

Eggheads have found a positive link between the number of racist tweets and the number of racist hate crimes in US cities

Fungus Bob

Re: Well, there's a surprise

Too much.

Open-heart nerdery: Boffins suggest identifying and logging in people using ECGs

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Trollface

Re: The end of biometrics

Of course they'll flush the buffers. My question is who will buff the flushers?

Curioser and curioser: Little Mars rover sniffs out highest ever levels of methane

Fungus Bob
Coat

Mars needs Beano...

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

Fungus Bob

Re: Yet another....

Instance of someone forgetting Microsoft Bob.

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

Fungus Bob

Re: Brevity.

No one should have to reset a fucking door either, but Chevrolet introduced such a thing in the 2000 Venture minivan. Was a Goddamn stupid idea. The compass could get fucked up too. To reset it, you had to drive the van in circles until it started working again. You've never seen a Venture? Maybe this is why.

The latest FCC plan to boost US broadband? Prevent competition in apartment blocks

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Re: The sooner..

Won't happen until the FCC installs a Pai-hole.

Google: We're not killing ad blockers. Translation: We made them too powerful, we'll cram this genie back in its bottle

Fungus Bob

It wasn't sinking before they pumped water into it.

Fungus Bob

Re: The art of misleading with numbers

Ooooh, compost them!

Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater

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Re: Could it be

It's a tumor.

If your broadband bill is too high consider moving to Idaho, they get the internet for free

Fungus Bob

But they aren't paying enough to pay for the wear and tear they do to our roads. Damage does not increase in a linear manner with weight, the average semi is 4.5 times heavier than the average car but does 410 times the damage.

https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weight-vs-road-damage-levels/

Russian Jesus gives up food to meditate on how he can improve crypto messenger Telegram

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Trollface

Re: This should be encouraged

Yep, completely invisible...

Church roofs? Nyet, say Russian scrap thieves, we're taking this bridge

Fungus Bob
Trollface

Re: Who would steal a bridge?

"Who would steel a bridge?"

There, FTFY

Tech lobbyists turn on Trump over Mexican tariffs, then quickly try to smooth the waters

Fungus Bob

Re: Trump is right

"You're assuming in (A) that the goods coming from Mexico will continue to be bought by Americans at a higher price, instead of being sourced from another country sans tariff."

Of course we will buy them because they,re not going to come from somewhere else. Companies that have invested lots of time, money and effort to set up production facilities in Mexico aren't going to duplicate all that work to set up operations somewhere else just because the Tweet-Potato-In-Chief imposed a 5% price hike.

Google relents slightly in ad-blocker crackdown – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much

Fungus Bob

Re: Mozilla take note

Vivaldi's official statement on Twitter:

"Manifest V3 seems to still be in the design stages and we expect that Chromium developers will take into account the needs of users and extension developers as they finalize this new manifest. We'll be following closely and come up with a plan based on their final decision."

So, no substance, just fiffy-faff.

Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

Fungus Bob

Re: First rule of interogation...

No, the The first rule of Interrogation Club is: you do not talk about Interrogation Club. The second rule of Interrogation Club is: you DO NOT talk about Interrogation Club!